Soref Fellow @WashInstitute-Shia militias-Created #HizballahCavalcade, The Shia Militia Mapping Project, wrote The Shiite Jihad in Syria & Its Regional Effects
Jan 12, 2021 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Iran has a great number of Sunni and even Marxian (at this point what does that even mean, but still) proxies: PFLP-GC, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, HAMAS, Harakat Tawhid al-Islami (Lebanon), to name a few.
Khomeini pushed a pan-Islamic ideology with Shiism as the central spoke. Obviously, the sectarianism was there (Shia have specific high level positions), but the Islamic Republic and the ideology that it promotes is one of pan-Islamic leadership.
